Tel Dan [Mound of Dan, ( תל דן in Hebrew), Tel el-Qadi (Mound of the Judge in Arabic)] Ancient Village or Settlement : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel Dan Alternative Name: Mound of Dan, ( תל דן in Hebrew), Tel el-Qadi (Mound of the Judge in Arabic)
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 6.75 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kiryat Shmona Nearest Village: Dan
Latitude: 33.249611N Longitude: 35.651803E
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Tel Dan ("literal translation of the Hebrew name Tel Dan, "Dan" being "judge", or "judging one"), is an archaeological site in Israel in the upper Galilee next to the Golan Heights. The site is quite securely identified with the Biblical city of Dan, the northernmost city in the Kingdom of Israel, which the Book of Judges states was known as Laish prior to its conquest by the Tribe of Dan.

Finds at the site date back to the Neolithic era c 4500 BCE; from the remains found, which include 0.8 m wide walls, and pottery shards, it appears that the site was occupied in Neolithic times for several centuries before being abandoned for up to about 1000 years.

Within the remains of the city wall, close to the entrance of the outer gate, was found a fragment which seemingly was originally from a stele. This basalt fragment, the Tel Dan Stele, contains an Aramaic inscription, referring to one of the Aramaean kings of Damascus; most scholars believe that the king it refers to is Hazael (c 840 BCE), though a minority argue that it instead refers to Ben-Hadad (c 802 BCE). Very little of the inscription remains, but the text contains the letters 'ביתדוד' (BYTDWD) which some archaeologists agree refers to House of David (Beth David in Hebrew. In the line directly above, the text reads 'MLK YSR'L', i.e. "King of Israel". Hebrew script from the era is vowel-less), which would make the inscription if read correctly and genuine the first time that the name David has been found in any archaeological site dating before 500 BCE.

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